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How Skill Redundancy Makes You a Safer Hire
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore why having overlapping skills across multiple roles makes you a safer, more valuable hire than a narrow specialist. Using the example of a marketing manager who also knows basic data analysis — not a data scientist, but someone who can run a regression and interpret a cohort table — they show how redundancy insulates a team when key people leave, accelerates onboarding, and prevents single points of failure. Lucas cites a 2024 LinkedIn workforce report that found 78% of hiring managers prefer candidates with adjacent skill overlap over deep solo…
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